!!!Siegendorf

Siegendorf, Burgenland, municipality in the district of 
Eisenstadt-Umgebung, alt. 176 m, pop. 2,446, area 
23.06 km%%sup 2/%, in the Wulka Plain, near the border with 
Hungary; approximately 56 % of the population (1,370 persons) 
belong to the ethnic minority of  Croats. - Since the closure of the 
sugar factory in 1989, economic restructuring has led to the emergence 
of a large number of small and medium-sized enterprises; industrial 
zone with trade and manufacturing companies in the eastern part of the 
municipality; manufacture of electric household appliances, 
pre-fabricated building systems. - Baroque parish church (1659), 
statue of the Virgin Mary; column of the Holy Trinity (early 
18%%sup th/%  century); castrum ("monastic cellar") dating 
from the 16%%sup th/%  century. Four tumuli dating from the urn field 
culture of the late Bronze Age in the Schuschenwald forest (one of 
which has been reconstructed).

!Literature
Gemeinde Siegendorf im Burgenland (ed.), Siegendorf im 
Burgenland. Festschrift on the occasion of the inauguration of the 
Hauptschule secondary school on September 27, 1975, 1975.


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